A good metaphor for making presentations is good teaching. Teachers seek to explain content and thinking; and to present that material with credibility, with authority, and without patronizing authoritarianism. Here is an excellent paper by the great statistician Frederick Mosteller on teaching.

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Frederick Mosteller, "Classroom and Platform Performance", The American Statistician, February 1980, Vol. 34, No.1, pp. 11-17.
Reprinted with permission from The American Statistician. Copyright 1980 by the American Statistical Association. All rights reserved.